"With fears of a recession spreading like a virus throughout the world, and people clamping their wallets tightly shut after Christmas, perhaps it's time we all stopped playing games and got on with some work to earn back our hard spent dollars and pounds. But who are we kidding, recession or not, we're still going to spend a large proportion of our time doing what we enjoy most, playing video games; but how to do it with so little money around? Ladies and Gentleman, I welcome you to XSReviews multi part budget gaming article, that I hope will help you stretch those pounds to the maximum amount of enjoyable playing hours."